24 cases of honour-killing in February: Fafen

Islamabad: Cases of honour-killings were more widespread in February this year against the preceding month as 24 cases were reported in 16 districts against 19 recorded in 12 districts in January, says a report compiled by Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen).

The report, which was released on Friday, said that despite government’s efforts to eradicate the practice, all four provinces reported at least one such case.

Twelve cases were reported in nine districts in Punjab, nine in four Sindh districts, two in as many districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one in a Balochistan district.

A total of 793 cases were registered for crimes against women, the report said.

Most frequent and widely reported of these were FIRs for forced marriage.

These constituted 40 percent of the total cases.

Twenty-four percent of the cases were those of attack on modesty, rape (19 percent), offences relating to marriage (14 percent), honour-killings (3 percent) and word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (1 percent).

Ten out of 78 districts reported half of the total crime cases of which seven districts were in Punjab and three in KP.